AFI, Cahiers & Ehrlich’s Best Films Of 2018

The American Film Institute has announced their annual year-end top ten list of the year’s best films. Making the cut this year are “BlacKkKlansman,” “Black Panther,” “Eighth Grade,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” “The Favourite,” “First Reformed,” “Green Book,” “Mary Poppins Returns,” “A Quiet Place,” and “A Star is Born”.

In addition “Roma” was ineligible for the film list because of its foreign financing, but was honored with a special award by the committee. On the TV side there was “The Americans,” “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” “Atlanta,” “Barry,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Kominsky Method,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Pose,” “Succession,” and “This Is Us”.

Finally, IndieWire senior critic David Ehrlich has released his annual video countdown of his favorite films of the year and once again has beautifully edited together the clip to an eclectic mix of music resulting in some great moments such as the Portman & creature dance in “Annihilation” being set to “Total Eclipse of the Heart”.